Good explanations matter, because it becomes very easy to fall into the curse of the expert. As highly knowledgeable subject experts, it’s very easy for us to forget the steps we took to acquire this knowledge. So we need to be tactical and strategic, whenever we are explaining new ideas, if we are going to make the information accessible to our students. Storytelling helps with this.

Why tell stories?

“Stories are ‘psychologically privileged’.” We are ‘hard-wired’ to learn from stories, as that’s how early humans learnt from their ancestors, before we had books and other methods of passing on information.